>5. What kinds of plugins do people use today, and what will they want to use >in the future? > >Audio-to-Audio: >- Effects that replace traditional outboard gear in a studio), such as >delays, reverbs, chorus, flanger, compressor, eq, pitch shifter, etc. > >Music-to-Audio processors, such MIDI synthesizers or other "monolithic" >synthesizers. i would suggest calling these "audio generators". the controlling data may or may not be music data (trivial example: software that generates audio from visual input). >- Music->Music processors, such as quantizers, transposers, style >generators. i would suggest adding "music generators" (for example, algorithmic or other processes that generate music data). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe